Re: Question on NSToolbar

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2 Jan 2009, at 19:22, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> I would expect that we always have the menu as the topmost view in the
> window, then the toolbar and last the actual contents view.

Yes ... with all this lying inside the window border decorations (when  
we are drawing decorations) of course.

> Currently
> the toolbar increases the size of the window, when switched on. It  
> could
> as well decrease the size of the contents view. Which should we
> implement in the future?

We should do the same as MacOS-X does.  I haven't tried, but I expect  
that the content view stays the same and the window resizes around it  
so that the views within the window are not disturbed.  I imagine that  
the window therefore grows upwards when a toolbar (or internal menu)  
is added, with the bottom of the window (and content view) remaining  
at a constant position on screen.  Of course, if this would take the  
top of the window off-screen, you would probably want to reposition it  
automatically to keep it on screen, so Apple may have decided to have  
the window grow downwards ... we need to test.